Thursday, February 14, 2013

Heavy, prog-informed post-rock is the name of the bidness that Fayetteville trio Terminus is in.

If your ears are open to the metallic crushingness of such bands as Baroness, Isis, Mastodon and the like, don't miss these dudes. Oh, and check this: they're in high school. They're in high school and their tunes could stand up with any number of bands twice their age.

Check out "Hierophant," for a muscular, raging workout that shows off the group's chops without seeming showy.

On the lasting ripple effect of Chris Selby's Clunk Music Hall.

Little Rock’s leading harbingers of doom return with a new album, “Foundations of Burden.”

You've got to figure that a band from frozen-ass Winnipeg is just gonna be way gnarlier and tougher than a band from some sun-kissed tropical clime where people wear tank tops and flip-flops year-round.

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Lawyers facing federal court sanctions for forum shopping a class action insurance case have brought in new legal guns from out of state to fight potential sanctions.

Twelve of the lawyers facing punishment by federal Judge P.K. Holmes in Fort Smith for moving a class action case against an insurance company out of his court to a state court where it was speedily settled have filed their argument against sanctions.

State Rep. Clarke Tucker, the Little Rock Democrat, has posted on Facebook some good news —he's cancer-free and has a good prognosis after August surgery and chemotherapy for bladder cancer.

It has fast become gospel around here that if Bielema's staring at a smaller number on the scoreboard as he saunters into the locker room at the midway point of a game, there's no credible reason for Arkansas to take the field for the last 30 minutes of action.